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System Properties Comparison Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. Tigris vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.teradata.comterminusdb.comwww.tigrisdata.comtrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.tigrisdata.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperTeradataDataChemist Ltd.Tigris Data, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842018202220142011
Current releaseTeradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustC++, JavaC#
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesnoJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersyesyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoHashingGraph PartitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes, using FoundationDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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